About Us

On any given day, Corrections manages more than 8,500 prisoners contained within 19 prisons throughout the country and more than 40,000 offenders serving sentences and orders in the community.

Corrections also provides reports on offenders to the courts to assist in sentencing decisions and to the New Zealand Parole Board to help the board decide whether a prisoner should be released and under what conditions.
 

Corrections improves public safety by:

• making sure offenders comply with their sentences
• designing and delivering rehabilitation programmes
• providing education and job training.
   

Corrections does not:

• arrest or sentence offenders
• decide whether someone accused of a crime is remanded in prison
• decide when a prisoner is released
• set conditions for a community-based sentence
• collect fines
• normally manage offenders under the age of 17.